Interim Michigan State University President John Engler at a Board of Trustees meeting earlier this year.

On Wednesday, a bombshell report exploded in Michigan and across the nation as Michigan State University announced a $500 million settlement with more than 300 survivors of sexual assault at the hands of former MSU sports doctor Larry Nassar.

But what does the settlement mean and how will the major public university cover such a large bill?

Former Michigan governor, and interim president of MSU, John Engler speaks with Detroit Todayhost Stephen Henderson about what the provisions of the agreement will mean for the university and the MSU community moving forward.

Engler says that MSU looks at the “Nassar lawsuits as related to Larry Nassar and the crimes of one doctor. This settlement…perhaps begins to close that part off.”

This ”is just the beginning, in many ways, of the national #MeToo Movement and the relationship between men and women,” he adds.

Engler acknowledges that there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to re-establish trust on campus.

“We are scrubbing every policy, every procedure, every program that deals with these kinds of questions on our campus.”

In order for MSU to move forward, Hunt recommends that the university be even more transparent about what happened and what will happen moving forward. But, “until the victims feel the cultural change is happening, it’s not happening.”

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